Wang Daoyuan had been cultivating in the cave for more than half a year. During this time, his cultivation had improved slightly.
However, there was still some distance to go before he could break through to the fourth level of the Foundation Establishment Realm.
In the past half a year, Bai Sheng's clone had refined all the Mystic Yin Jade into storage Dharma artifacts.
He had refined more than 30 of them. In order to fool others, they were all in the shape of Mystic Yin Jade Gourds.
He also often went to the Mystic Yin Spring to collect Yin Qi to nourish the Tiger Soul Banner.
After all, he still needed to use the Tiger Soul Banner as a cover to search for underground rivers in the future.
After half a year of nourishment, the Tiger Soul had completely recovered. The entire Dharma artifact had also regained its former power.
Bai Sheng's refining skills had also returned to second-level inferior-grade, and he had successfully refined the Spirit Seeking Compass.
This Spirit Seeking Compass was only the size of an adult's palm. It looked a bit like a compass, but it didn't have a pointer.
The surface of the compass was also very simple, with only the carvings of the Five Elements Divine Beasts.
After the Spirit Seeking Compass was activated, the Five Elements Divine Beast Patterns could sense Spirit Qi of the corresponding attribute.
There were nine star positions in each Divine Beast Pattern.
If there was a Spirit Vein nearby, a star position would light up.
If there was an inferior-grade first-level Spirit Vein, only one star position would light up. If there was an intermediate-grade first-level Spirit Vein, two would light up.
If there was an upper-grade third-level Spirit Vein, all nine star positions would light up.
After all, it was only an inferior-grade second-level Dharma artifact. It couldn't determine the grade of a higher-grade Spirit Vein.
If the Spirit Seeking Compass was of a higher grade, it could add a few more star positions to determine a higher-grade Spirit Vein.
The entire Spirit Seeking Compass was divided into two layers. The upper layer could be rotated at will.
If there was a water-attribute Spirit Vein, the upper layer would rotate, and the Black Tortoise Pattern would point in the direction of the Spirit Vein and release a beam of Spirit Qi toward the Spirit Vein.
If there was a non-attribute Spirit Vein, the upper layer wouldn't rotate. The star positions in the five Divine Beast Patterns would light up and release Spirit Qi beams at the same time. They would merge together and fly toward the Spirit Vein.
This method only worked when there was a Spirit Vein. It was more passive.
In addition to the passive method of searching for Spirit Veins, it could also directly control the Qi Testing Compass to release Spirit Qi beams.
Through the compass, the Spirit Qi beams could detect whether there were Spirit Veins in an area.
Through the Spirit Qi beams, the Spirit Vein's surroundings.
This way, when searching for underground spirit veins, no one would need to go down personally.
The Spirit Seeking Compass was a special kind of Array Measuring Compass. It also retained the function of finding the Array Eye and the flaws of Array Formations.
However, compared to the Formation Measuring Disc, its effect was much weaker. The speed at which it could find the Formation Eye and the flaws of the Formation was much slower than the Formation Measuring Disc of the same grade.
There were several hundred kilograms of Soul-Binding Silk stored in the space, and it wasn't good to sell it.
Since he didn't know how to refine weapons, he could only find a storage bag and put it inside.
Now that he had a Weapon Refiner clone, he naturally had to make good use of it.
Bai Sheng used the Soul-Sealing Silkworm Silk to refine two low-grade tier-2 cloaks. Although these cloaks were tier-2 magic artifacts, they were not spirit armor type magic artifacts.
Its defensive function was about the same as a High-Grade Tier 1 Magic Artifact. Its main function was to avoid the detection of Divine Sense.
Back then, Blood Shadow Assassin Wu Yi had ambushed him at Black Rock Peak.
Wu Yi's cloak had only been refined with a few taels of Soulbind Silk.
Even when Wang Daoyuan used the Heaven Peering Technique, he couldn't detect him from more than ten feet away.
Wang Daoyuan's two cloaks were both made with three layers of Soulbind Silk. They weighed about four to five kilograms without any other materials.
A Zifu Realm cultivator's soul had transformed into a divine soul, and the strength of their Divine Sense had greatly increased.
It was hard to say whether this Soulbind Cloak could avoid the detection of a Zifu Realm cultivator, but it was impossible for a Foundation Establishment cultivator to detect it.
He closed his eyes and used the Heaven Peering Technique. Even if the Soulbind Cloak was in front of him, he wouldn't be able to detect it.
Even a peak Foundation Establishment cultivator wouldn't be able to detect it if they didn't have an extremely powerful Divine Sense detection technique.
When he went out, if he encountered a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator or a high-grade tier-2 demon beast, he could just put on the Soulbind Cloak and use the Earth Escape Technique. It would be very easy to escape.
With everything ready, Wang Daoyuan left the cave and headed to the northern foot of Mount Huiyan to find the underground river.
He changed into Du Heng's outfit, which was a loose black robe and a black cloak that could cover his head.
Heretic cultivators cultivated with Evil Yin Qi, which damaged their bodies. Usually, their faces were ugly.
Therefore, most heretic cultivators didn't like to show their true faces.
His clothes were also common among heretic cultivators, so it wouldn't attract attention.
After leaving the Xuanyin Market, he flew towards the south with the Tiger Soul Banner.
The Xuanyin Market was only about two thousand miles away from the northern foot of Mount Huiyan.
It only took him a little more than two hours to reach the northern foot of Mount Huiyan.
This time, his target was the Nine Springs Ridge.
The Nine Springs Ridge was located at the northern edge of Mount Huiyan. Nine mountains were connected. On each mountain, there was a spiritual spring, which was why it was called the Nine Springs Ridge.
Since there were so many spiritual springs here, there must be underground water veins.
Moreover, the Nine Springs Ridge was located between the Xuanyin Spring and the Underworld Sect. It shouldn't be far from the underground river upstream of the Darkwater River.
He came to the middle mountain of the Nine Springs Ridge and took out the Spirit Seeking Compass.
He was looking for the underground river, which could also be regarded as a water spiritual vein.
He used his spiritual power to drive the Black Tortoise Pattern on the Spirit Seeking Compass. The Black Tortoise Pattern immediately spat out a beam of water spiritual power.
Wang Daoyuan used the Spirit Testing Compass to control the direction of the beam of spiritual power.
Under his control, the beam of spiritual power went into the underground water veins from the spiritual spring.
The beam of spiritual power went down along the water veins. After five hundred feet, it reached its limit.
If it went any deeper, the beam of spiritual power would lose contact with the Spirit Seeking Compass.
Without the Spirit Seeking Compass to continue supplying spiritual power, the beam of spiritual power would soon be annihilated.
Moreover, the water veins under this spiritual spring were extremely narrow. The spring water was squeezed out from the cracks in the rocks.
Cultivators couldn't pass through this kind of water veins.
If this water vein didn't work, he would try another mountain.
Just as he was about to leave the mountain, he heard someone calling for help at the foot of the mountain.
He took a closer look and found that it was Xu Ting.
Behind Xu Ting was a huge wild boar that was sixty to seventy feet long. This wild boar was at the beginning of the second rank, which was equivalent to a human cultivator at the fourth level of Foundation Establishment.
Evil cultivators were natural enemies of demon beasts. Xu Ting was at the third level of Foundation Establishment. It shouldn't be a problem for him to beat a wild boar with a slightly higher cultivation.
Besides, the wild boar was a terrestrial demon beast and couldn't fly.
If he couldn't beat it, he could just fly away on his artifact. What was the meaning of racing with the wild boar on the ground?
Wang Daoyuan couldn't be bothered to care about Xu Ting's life or death. He had only seen him twice and exchanged a few words with him. Why would he care about him?
Seeing Xu Ting rush up, he immediately controlled the Tiger Soul Yin Fiend Banner and was about to fly away.
At this moment, a huge bird with a wingspan of more than ten feet suddenly flew down from the sky.
Its cultivation was at the second rank, which was not far from the second rank, which was equivalent to a cultivator at the sixth level of Foundation Establishment.
Now he knew why Xu Ting was racing with the wild boar.
For Xu Ting, with such a huge bird in the sky, flying on his artifact was not much different from suicide. It was safer to play with the wild boar.
He wasn't very strong, but he was quite good at causing trouble. He was surrounded by two second rank demon beasts in the air and on the ground.
Compared to a second rank demon beast, a Foundation Establishment Cultivator's Sword Kinesis Speed was far inferior.
If he fought it head-on in the air, Wang Daoyuan wasn't confident that he could kill it even if he took out his trump card.
On the lone mountain, he couldn't leave with Earth Escape. At most, he could escape to a depth of a few hundred feet. Surrounded by cliffs, he was even more passive than on the top of the mountain.
Flying on artifacts and Earth Escape were both unreliable. The best choice was to kill or repel the wild boar and walk down the mountain.
After reaching the surface, he could escape through Earth Escape. That huge bird couldn't do anything to him.
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
